A painter paints pictures on canvas. But musicians paint their pictures on silence. ~Leopold Stokowski

Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown

There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt

A song has a few rights the same as ordinary citizens... if it happens to feel like flying where humans cannot fly... to scale mountains that are not there, who shall stop it? ~Charles Ives

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic. ~Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"